BUJUMBURABurundi authorities have arrested a journalist over an article questioning security forces' ability to respond to attacks by Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents, his relatives said today.
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He wrote in a July 12 article: "If Somali Islamists had to try something in Burundi, it would be easy since our defence and security forces are much better in looting and killing innocent people than defending the nation."
"A judge who questioned him told me that he was being prosecuted for a story he wrote linked to the al Shabaab's threats," his brother, Jean Marie-Vianey Kavumbagu, told Reuters.
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Source: Breaking News, Kenya
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